Thanks for the info jet. Gonna order some now that I know what to get. Thats a real bummer about Dan's plane but a great repair job. I know how he feels. On another note my Edge 540 arrived today. Man those people at Twisted Hobby are freaky fast when it comes to shipping. I ordered my plane on Friday and got it today, Monday. I'll take pics of the build if anyone wants to see. I know its been shown before. But if I goof up along the way maybe someone will catch it before it goes too far. Thanks for all the help everyone.

Sometimes I'm a fast study, other times I think the lobotomy really did take.

Anyway, there's been some chat about balancing the plane here lately, so I took time this morning to check things closely before heading out to fly with son Chris. I knew my CY was nose heavy from last weekend. I'm running the blue 1500k motor and never checked the CG after replacing the X series motor.

I taped a penny near the tail to balance it. I also taped a penny near the right wing tip to balance it laterally. Did the wing balance to our other CY as well.

Well, holy cracker beans! All this time I thought I sucked flying these things. Now I know 90% of "the problem" was my incorrect setup! I just thought I needed to learn better control doing KE's, etc..

Wow, amazing difference! Had more fun today with the CY than ever before. These things are da bomb.

Just set the plane on a hard surface, lift the wings level and see which way it tips. If you built it like most of us do, per the instructions, all the electronics are mounted on the left side, so the right wing tends to be lighter.

Then I just laid a penny, dime, whatever, to the lighter side until the plane tips either way without preference. It took a single penny near the wingtip on both ouf our CY's to balance out. A penny weights about 2 grams. Less than a bird turd. LOL.

edit: Right now the penny is taped on using gaffers tape. I love gaffers tape! Might look for a 2gr wood screw and screw it into the wing tip and glue it.

edit 2: add pic - Bob's yer uncle!

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I have the Extra Slick with ESC on the right side of the plane and the Rx on the left under the wing. The battery is above the wood spar about 1/4 of the battery ahead of the spar. No weight added to balance. Just positioned components to balance. Lots of people us different equipment like I am using an Orange Futaba compatable Rx, which is under 9 grams without the plastic case in only the heatshrink tubing.

Put lights on my bruised, battered, and burned slick 2 (This plane keeps flying no matter what I do to it, it's amazing). I can't believe I waited so long to do this. No longer does it matter when customers keep me late at the shop. Daylight no longer dictates my flying schedule! Think I'm going to keep this set up as a night slick and get a fresh day slick There are a couple sneaky trees hiding in the dark in my backyard with their eye on this plane...so it may need more repairs than normal soon.

I'll have to get my tripod out soon and take some stable long exposure shots. I'm really excited!

Put lights on my bruised, battered, and burned slick 2 (This plane keeps flying no matter what I do to it, it's amazing). I can't believe I waited so long to do this. No longer does it matter when customers keep me late at the shop. Daylight no longer dictates my flying schedule! Think I'm going to keep this set up as a night slick and get a fresh day slick There are a couple sneaky trees hiding in the dark in my backyard with their eye on this plane...so it may need more repairs than normal soon.

I'll have to get my tripod out soon and take some stable long exposure shots. I'm really excited!

LOL - I just came inside from flying a few packs thru my Slick v2 in the cul-de-sac.

Bought my V2 extra slick about a month ago and the count is already 6 of the 32inch series planes. Members couldn't resist after flying mine. Here's a vid of a couple of us having a good time.http://youtu.be/AvYeObkUypY

You guys are killing me. My Edge 540 just arrived today. Wont be able to start on it until tomorrow. Got a new work board setup just need to get a few weights to hold it down while glue sets. I'll just go buy a couple cases of ammo to use as my weights. Never hurts to have a little extra.
Tom

Bought my V2 extra slick about a month ago and the count is already 6 of the 32inch series planes. Members couldn't resist after flying mine. Here's a vid of a few of us having a good time.http://youtu.be/AvYeObkUypY

If you want parallel connectors of those red JST connectors, I think you can solder a bunch of pigtails together cheaper than buying that one. I've got two sets of 4 pigtails soldered in parallel to my preferred larger connector.

I'm charging 8 460mah 2s nanos through this 8 x 2s harness I made for smaller packs (shown). Ignore the harness on the right, and the two small chargers. Using my larger charger. The red JST connection is the weak point of the parallel charging setup (gets warm if too many amps), not the JST-XH connections.